DAVID FROST

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AGE: 69
OCCUPATION: Al Jazeera commentator
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: Recruited by the new Al Jazeera English channel as its "key on-air
talent," the veteran BBC newsman now hosts Frost Over the World. He also
saw himself lionized for his legendary Nixon interviews in the hit play
Frost/Nixon, soon to become a movie by Ron Howard.

CON: You'll have to watch his show on YouTube: no
American cable net has made a deal with Al Jazeera English.